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Cartoons for Slightly Twisted People

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:54:33 +0100

Cartoons for Slightly Twisted People

The whole Bickl Family

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:16:26 +0100

I just wanted to give everyone a description of all our furry and feathered family members.Here's the run down of our critters.

Our dogs

Lucas- our St. Bernard. He is our guardian dogs for when we are able to get our livestock. I need to make sure today to check his wounds on his neck that received while trying to protect our goats when they got mangled. My big teddy bear!

Bo- our sweetest black lab- He is pretty much here to keep Lucas company and to hopefully back up Lucas in dealing with security.

Missy- Our Chihuahua/Dachshund mix- my indoor security...lol

Our gorgeous cats

Bonnie- The huntress can even catch birds up in trees. I'm waiting for her to get a squirrel!

Clyde- Our handsome tomcat that just can't get enough attention- except for today since he was a no show when I called him to get his pic. Sorry- I'll get one of him soon. He's a strikingly handsome main coon..

Our adorable kittens

Luna- our good luck black cat. I'm not very superstitious- but I've always heard that it's good luck to own a pure black cat. She is very little and was the runt of her litter.

Monkey- This little guy is so cute! He is called monkey because he has opposable thumbs that he actually uses! I was told that there was a few in his litter that way. I'm going to get him fixed to make sure his obvious inbreed bloodline stops at least with him.

Our Chickens
Sugar- a rooster maybe? Obviously the leader between the two. A little flighty but very sweet one you catch him/her. We purchased when at a feed mill just looking at goats and just happened to look at the chickens and saw this one gett the sh*t kicked out of it by the others! We had to make the rescue!

Cinnamon- the sweetest hen . She was purchased as a friend to sugar. Loves to cuddle and comes running when called.
I'm sure you can guess who's who...lol

I can do this...

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:25:09 +0100

I am a writer. Really, I am. I am constantly working on articles, stories and web content, even building a couple websites. I just don't do a good job getting to everything on my list of things to do . I haven't really made this blog a priority. But that's gonna change. I am planning on writing in it daily. I do have a lot to cover because a lot has happened the last couple of months since we moved here to try to start our small homestead. Let's see we are still building on our house. I have some pretty good sketch's of our plans to encompass our house in cob and strawbale. I have build a lot of things.. a chicken coop, a pallet workshop that is still missing the roof. It was supposed to be a father's day present for John. I built a small back porch with a roof to hold my washer and dryer. I do a really good job on a milking stand for our goats. To bad they ended up buried in our back pasture.Gia was with babies too. I'm still feeling traumatized about that day. It was just so dramatic hearing her screaming as she was being dragged into the woods I felt so helpless. I had ran as fast as I could bare foot all the way out there just to be to late! That was the also day John got bit by a baby timber rattler on our front porch. He had to drive himself to the ER in Sapulpa, only to be transferred to Tulsa by ambulance. I couldn't be there for him, because it just so happened to be the same day we ran out of diapers. Lyla had gotten her shots and had a little tummy trouble which caused her to go thru our supply quicker than usual. The kept him in ICU over night and I couldn't even talk to him on the phone! I know I drove the nurses crazy with me calling to make sure they had given him an extra blanket. He can't handle AC on his knee and back- it really makes him hurt.
Ok back on track here...sorry. Things I have built.....hmm.. I have the startings of a beautiful garden thanks to the help of my friends that seemed to understand fully my visions of what my garden should be. Patience is a real artist, and her ideas really seem to compliment my thoughts of my little cottage garden design. Her father, Ray, was nice enough to use his backhoe to help me dig a pond since he was making holes anyways when he was digging up the tons of sand plum trees that were in my way. He did a wonderful job transplanting them around his pond. I will try to get some pics of each of these projects and get this blog up to date.

But first lets cover my projects just for today.

I'm closing in the underneath of my bed to keep Missy (our Chi-wiener that is our only inside pet , except my numerous tree frogs-another story later I promise) from hiding everything she steals under there. She is quite the clepto it seems, with anything she can drag under there! I have found shoes,remotes, baby toys, pens, clothing, etc. under there and I'm tired of having to fish them out daily. So I do have some 2x6s that are to old to use for building anything that would be perfect to close it off. Sorry Missy.

It has rained a couple of times this last week so my outdoor critters need baths. I don't think I'm gonna do much washing of the cats except cleaning their ears and eyes, and a good brushing. But the dogs and chickens are filthy so I'm throwing them in the tub today. Oh I'm looking forward to that.. a little sarcasm...lol.

I'm gonna try to work on the roof of the work shop which seems impossible. I have 2 pieces of plywood and about 9 2x4s to use with the tons of foam boards we have piled everywhere. I know I'm also gonna put a layer of plastic on it too.

I need to rake up the trash burning are and burn the trash good! I don't know why but it seems that it never all burns and then the dogs get into it and drag it everywhere!! Oh man, my yard is a mess! We always separate the burnable and nonburnable and organic but the diapers don't burn to good so I think they kinda mess it up. Maybe if I add some from the brush pile to get better flames? I don't know - but I'll figure it out.

I need to search on Craigslist today for a free working fridge again. Hopefully today I'll have better luck. Our fridge went out about a week ago and it was right after we had just done our months worth of shopping for our groceries too! Now we are out of foodstamps and our food is going bad!

Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:46:56 +0100

My friend Becca sent me this and oh' man did it have me laughing!

Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido : All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.) : Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

1. Coffee , n. The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted , adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

3. Abdicate , v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4 esplanade , v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly , adj. Impotent.

6. Negligent , adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph , v. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle , n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence , n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash , n. A rapidly receding hairline..

11. Testicle , n. A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude , n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon , n.. A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster , n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. .

15. Frisbeetarianism , n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent , n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men

17. Our cookie monster

Our new town...

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:03:24 +0100

Bringing this blog upto date...

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:17:00 +0100

This new blog doesn't give us the ability to do backdated posts so I'm going to try to update it this way I guess :(

This is our bedrooms with a view!

These pics show the mess that is to be our new home. You'll often hear me describe it as scary..lol

and this is how far we've came!

A new front deck!

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:25:47 +0100

We had been using a very scary, rickety porch that was obviously built just to be temporary by the previous owners. A very dear friend of ours, Barbara, had given us some 2 x 6's so we threw them together and built a nice deck that measures about 8'x 8'. We probably should have thought about the low overhanging eave off the front of our house more when we placed it so there isn't a step down from the house. Just watch it, if your tall, when you walk out to the edge...lol

This was the porch we had......scary!